What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Jan van Gilse.

Piano concerto "Drei Tanzskizzen"
Variations on a Saint-Nicolas Song.

Olivier Triendl, Piano.
Netherlands SO, David Porcelijn.

Another great in the Dutch musical arena.

[Madiel]

Dvorak, String Quintet no.3



EDIT: For me the 'American' Quintet is preferable to the 'American' Quartet.

[Daverz]

I'm interested in this cd. This is only the second recording of Visions I know of. Massenet not only uses a (vocalising) soprano, but also (briefly, discreetly) an "Electrophone" in the closing pages of this work. Is that mentioned in the comments?

Yes, though I only see credits for the soprano and violinist.

https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/NX%204178

The notes are available under "Media" (PDF):

https://www.chandos.net/chanimages/Booklets/NX4178.pdf

[Harry]

Kurt Atterberg.

Cello Concerto, opus 21 in C minor.
Horn Concerto, opus 28 in A major.

Nikolai Schneider, Cello.
Johannes Wiemes, Horn.

NDR Philharmonie Hannover, Ari Rasilainen.

[Traverso]

Scarlatti

CD 10

Sonatas KK 156-172

[Madiel]

Debussy, Iberia



I've gone from a Czech composer in America to a French composer depicting Spain...

[Que]

Q

[Biffo]

Zemlinsky: String Quartet No 3, Op 19 - LaSalle Quartet
Martinu: Sonata for Cello and Piano No 1 - Janos Starker (cello) and Rudolf Firkusny (piano)

[Mandryka]

I keep thinking that it's a shame he didn't record WTC2 on a piano.

[vandermolen]

Haydn: Symphony No. 31 'Hornsignal' (yes, really!)

[Christo]

Haydn: Symphony No. 31 'Hornsignal' (yes, really!)

Music that Sir Charles Mackerras chose to conduct cannot be wrong. 

[Traverso]

Chopin

Etudes

[Harry]

Ferenc Farkas.
Orchestral Works, Volume I.

Miklos Perenyi, Cello.
MAV SO, Peter Csaba.

[pjme]

Yes, though I only see credits for the soprano and violinist.

https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/NX%204178

The notes are available under "Media" (PDF):

https://www.chandos.net/chanimages/Booklets/NX4178.pdf

Thanks. That very early Electrophone had, due its difficult use,  only a brief life.
In an article by Massenet specialist Jean Christophe Branger, the name of Clément Ader is mentioned as the (possible) inventor (1878). Ader is a wonderful figure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl%C3%A9ment_Ader

[Maestro267]

Pettersson: Symphony No. 6
DSO Berlin/Trojahn

[steve ridgway]

Yesterday evening, second half of Mauricio Kagel - Acustica, 1970. All sorts of sounds in this, I think some saxophones being played in buckets of water and I particularly enjoyed the final bit which seemed to be old, worn records of hymn singing played on faulty gramophones.

[Todd]

Disc 6 of the mono LvB cycle. 

[Traverso]

Schubert

pianosonatas D.664-568 & 575

[Harry]

Ernst Rudorff.

Symphony No. 3, opus 50 in B minor.
Variationen über ein eigenes Thema, opus 24.

Bochumer Symphoniker, Frank Beermann.

This is pretty fine music, and so well performed and recorded. He did not deserve to be so unknown.
Some info about him:

A photograph from around 1896 depicts the musical senate of the Royal Academy of the Arts in Berlin. Ten professors in distinguished academic attire are posing for the camera. It is a who's who of the contemporary German compositional scene including Max Bruch, Joseph Joachim, Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Friedrich Gernsheim, and ... Ernst Rudorff. Today, we regret to say, the last-mentioned composer is the most forgotten among them. Born in Berlin in 1840, Rudorff grew up in a well-to-do, culturally connected household. His mother was Ludwig Tieck's grandniece and a close friend of the Mendelssohn siblings, and the Brothers Grimm and Karl Friedrich Schinkel were friends of the family. Rudorff's later friend Philipp Spitta (also Heinrich von Herzogenberg's close friend) wrote as follows: »The artistic views of these minds were marked by the tendencies of the romantic school. These were the ideas with which Rudorff completely filled himself from his childhood on.« As a composer Rudorff remained a romanticist through and through – also in his love of nature. He believed that industrialization posed an increasing threat to nature and decided to take action. He became an important precursor of conservation practices by groups organized in societies. His former teacher Carl Reinecke wrote of his pupils Sullivan, Grieg, and Rudorff, »I regard Rudorff as the most important musician of the then triumvirate, even though his name is less famous than that of his two fellow students.«

[not edward]

In honour of the mysterious monolith reappearing in Romania:

[asin]B00530GMSG[/asin]

I find Eotvos' recording of the Requiem to be interpretatively, technically and sonically outstanding.